#GOOGLEFIBER WANTS A better way of beaming the Internet into apartment buildings. On Friday, the company filed a document with the Federal Communications Commission arguing that the agency should ease access to a chunk of wireless spectrum that could serve the ambitions of #Google Fiber, the company’s ultra-high-speed Internet service. The spectrum in question—the 70/80 Ghz band—is used by #Webpass, the San Francisco broadband company now owned by Google Fiber (the acquisition closed today). Webpass uses this band to beam an Internet signal to the roofs of apartment buildings and condos, before stringing cables into living rooms. Google wants FCC rules that would allow it to use such technology on a much larger scale. Google Fiber is as a separate company under the umbrella operation called #Alphabet, and according to some reports it is under pressure to cut costs—even as iexpands its high-speed Internet service and pushes entrenched companies like #Verizon and #AT&T toward similar services. A faster Internet is good for Google. Of course, it’s good for everyone. That’s why the progress of Google Fiber is worth watching.
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/google-fiber-eyes-expansion-across-airwaves/
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